Ocarina remake is the first game to make me forget to eat dinner since Breath of the Wild
not even Remap is gonna get me to listen to an episode featuring someone with the title ‘director of applied AI’ 🚮
Control Resonant is what happens when you use a clicky keyboard in a room with an echo
Aonuma saying “actually adding a bunch of warp points to Ocarina doesn’t work, let’s take them out” is a good sign
sometimes youtube shows me a pinball-themed anti-vaping psa aimed at teens and even if it reached the intended audience i have to wonder about the efficacy
I was still awake last night when DST ended, so I did the manual updates to e.g. the oven and microwave clocks within like ten minutes Unfortunately, just now I started making dinner too early because I wasn't looking at any clocks, but judged it was about time because of what the sky looked like
If I have any trick-or-treaters this year, they’re getting tricks. They’ll be good tricks though, like how to do the backwards long jump in Mario 64
I think it's time I tap on the Ocarina remake icon just in case it launches early, as I've done with every game I've ever preordered for some reason
when you win the argument about whether or not decorated pottery is a highlight of Meroitic art
Thanks to the magic of save states I finished Sonic Spinball, a game I had as a kid but was never able to beat. (There wasn't a lot going on during the second half of that WS game...) It's not that good!
On a whim I booted up Tears of the Kingdom tonight to finish cleaning up all of the caves, using that phone app with the map. I was impressed that I had found all but six of them without a guide! I was less impressed that one of the ones I had missed was...in Kakariko Village
I know the battle against Christmas season expansion has already ceded a lot of ground (who waits until Thanksgiving anymore?) but whenever I see a store put out the displays before Halloween, as I did today, it still feels wrong
Today I saw a guy walking his dog with the leash in one hand and his phone in the other while also wearing a baby on his chest. He had a little baggie of dog shit too, which he somehow held between a couple of fingers at a distance from all three. Applause-worthy pedestrian
It’s nice to have my decision to leave Epic so consistently and repeatedly validated like this!
based on the subtitles "scribdoon" appears to mean "write it down," which seems like the kind of thing that guy who made shit up on scots wikipedia would've come up with
I imagine it's probably pretty hard to do barks for Fire Emblem characters, especially the more one-dimensional ones, but it always seems like the writers are having the time of their fucking lives
@robzacny.bsky.social Listening to you talk on Sports about how the end of a baseball season feels makes me think you might like this essay, if you haven't read it before:
Giamatti: The Green Fields of the Mind
Joan Daugherty's personal home page.
mason.gmu.edu
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You should just download your favorite YouTube content and put it on a hard drive in your home
I increasingly am downloading YouTube videos I like - using ytdlp - and putting them on my NAS. This is for several reasons: I do not trust that the inte...
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During Shenmue's development, there was probably a meeting where they decided not to let Ryo eat the potato chips or the chocolate bars (even though he can drink the sodas) to mitigate scope
if you're planning to play fortune's weave and you want to do all four part one paths and you're looking for a recommended order, might i suggest: cai, leda, dietrich, theodora good escalation of complexity and lore stuff imo
man i've seen gruber write a bunch of dumb shit before but this might be the dumbest
so cheerful and inclusive!!!
Yesterday my phone had a lock screen message telling me an OS update was available. Later in the day, a notification banner said the new update would install overnight. When I first looked at my phone today, a dialog box told me the OS didn't update. Then, just now, I got a lock screen message…
Experimental post: The Duality of Whacka In the Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Whacka can finally be fought, and has a suspiciously specific 108 HP. The game both offers a ridiculously simplistic explanation for this as well as a complex one steeped in Dharmic symbolism.